Easy growing wildflowers for your garden

24Oct,2023

The bright bluish-purple blooms of the native aromatic aster are most welcome in the fall when other plants are winding down

Aster

Showy blanket flowers are long-blooming, long-lived plants for the sunny garden.

Blanket Flower

The thin, delicate stems of wild blue flax will wave merrily in the breeze in sun or light shade. 

Wild Blue Flax

This species of candytuft is a short-lived herbaceous perennial usually grown as an annual.

Candytuft

Many showy cultivated columbine plants exist to tempt the gardener, but the native Eastern red columbine is just as lovely and will attract hummingbirds to the garden.

Eastern Red Columbine

There are new varieties of coreopsis introduced every year, but the lance-leafed wildflower form is still beloved for its copious bright yellow flowers and well-mannered clumping plants

Lance-Leaved Coreopsis

Maximillian sunflower is a perennial species that may not as impressive as its hybrid annual counterparts, but the 8-foot flowers still make a powerful statement in the back of the flower border.

Maximillian Sunflower

The fuzzy blooms of the liatris make them look somewhat exotic, but these are quite common native flowers that need nothing more than average soil and occasional rain

Blazing Star

The vigorous but never invasive Mexican hat features distinctive cones surrounded by drooping rays of gold or red petals

Mexican Hat

The vigorous but never invasive Mexican hat features distinctive cones surrounded by drooping rays of gold or red petals

Mexican Hat